Deixis and Grammar

Question 1

Deixis

Answer 1

Words which have different meanings based on context

3 types:

 1. Person Deixis
 2. Spatial Deixis
 3. Temporal Deixis

Question 2

Person Deixis

Answer 2

Deixis relating to people:

Him
Her
I
You
We
Them

etc.

Question 3

Spatial Deixis

Answer 3

Deixis relating to space:

Here
There
Left
Right
Up
Down
Nearby
Close

etc.

Question 4

Temporal Deixis

Answer 4

Deixis relating to time:

Now
Later
Today
Yesterday
Tomorrow
A few hours ago
In twenty minutes
This year

etc.

Question 5

Subject

Answer 5

Focus of a verb

Question 6

Object

Answer 6

Thing being acted on by subject

Question 7

Adverbial

Answer 7

Can be word or phrase describing time, place, or manner.

Question 8

Morphology

Answer 8

Study of word formation

Question 9

Root

Answer 9

Morpheme standing on it’s own

Question 10

Prefix

Answer 10

Added to beginning of word to change meaning

Question 11

Suffix

Answer 11

Added onto end of word to change meaning

Question 12

Tellability

Answer 12

Features of a story that make a story worth telling to an audience.

Question 13

Affordance

Answer 13

Aspect of genre or mode dictating how it might be used (videos on youtube can be viewed anywhere)

Question 14

Constraint

Answer 14

Aspect of genre or mode that limits potential use (videos on youtube may only be viewed with the appropriate device)

Question 15

Graphology

Answer 15

Visual aspects of texts.

Includes layout, typography, and images.